Improvement in fastenings for epaulets



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EDWARD JULIUs IIELWIG, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNoR To n. M. vROBINSON a oo., or sAMII'ILAoE;l

Letters Patent No. 1073614, dated September 20, 187 0.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS ron EPAULETS.

'lhev Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

- I, EDWARD J ULIUs HELWIG, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of lItennsylvania, have mventedauI .Improvement in Fastenings for Epaulets, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of the I neention.

My invention relates to a fastening for cpaulets, consisting of a long metal tongue or spring, secured at one endto the epaulet, adapted to plates upon the wearers shoulder, and having a hook at its opposite end, arranged to be caught upon a 'link or staple hinged to the epaulet, all of which willbe fully described hereafter.

Dscripton of the Accompany/ing Drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of au epaulet with my improved fastening, and of the plates for attaching the same to the shoulder'of the wearer;

Figure 2, an enlarged sectional view of the epamlet; andv v Figure 3, au inverted plan view of the same.-

Gene-ral Description The drawing represents my invention as applied. to an epaulet, or shoulder-piece, of the kind usually worn by privates, and consisting of ay cloth-covered plate, A, of vthin steel or other metal, or metal and straw board, enlarged, rounded, ...and made slightly convex at its outer end, as shown.

To the under side of the plate A is riveted, or oth- ,erwise secured, a long tongue, B, of spring steel, hammered brass, or other metal, which, when allowed to spring outward from the plate, will assume about the position indicated by dotted lines in iig. 2. It can, however, be pressed inward against the plate, and is `so bent at its outer end as to `form a hook,`a, which,

'when the tongue is thus pressed inward, may be caught upon a link or staple, G, hinged to the epaulet.

The tongue or spring when thus caught upon the link O will be retained in the position shown by full lines in iig. 2; and, in order to'release it, it will be nly necessary to press upon and disengage the hook a, and to then turn the'link to one side, as indicated by dotted lines.

The method of attaching the epaulet to the shoulder of the wearer will be readily understood on referring to fig. 1, where x :c represent bent plates sewed to the coat, and beneath which the tongue B is inserted prior to being caught upon the link O.

Among the and the fact that an epaulet provided with it cannot be disengaged from the shoulderb y the musket, an accident which is. of frequent occurrence where the ordinary swivel fastening is employed.

.My invention, it will` be evident, can readily to oliicers described.

Claim.

advantages possessed by my improved fastening may-be mentioned its extreme simplicity,

be applied as. epaulets as'to those of the kind v 

